Why is 350gb of files taking up 750gb of space?

I'm in a strange situation where my Macintosh HD says ive used 750gb but the individual folders within MacHD only total about 350gb
I've used a program called omnidisksweeper and I seem to have a 350gb volumes folder and a 340gb users folder in the same location with another user folder of 290gb in the volumes folder. I'm looking to find out if any of these arent necessary. I'm sure i dont need two users folders.
Here is a little info on the mac i've got:
All help is appreciated.

Here's the screenshot:
So Linc Davis i should just delete the Macintosh HD folder in the volumes folder? Do i need to rename the link to the Mac HD that is now called Macintosh HD1 (im assuming that this is what its for). Will it be okay to just delete the folder or do i need to do anything else?
Thanks for the replys by the way.

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